Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets

2008-10-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: As I understand the way you guys and AI generally work, you create well-organized spaces which your programs can systematically search for options. Let's call them nets - which have systematic, well-defined and

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Ben, Some questions then. You don't have any spaces or frames as such within your systems? (what terms would you use/prefer here BTW?) Everything is potentially connected to everything else? Perhaps you can give some example from say your pet-in-a-virtual-world (or anything else). It

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets PS

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Tintner
I guess the obvious follow up question is when your systems search among options for a response to a situation, they don't search in a systematic way through spaces of options? They can just start anywhere and end up anywhere in the system's web of knowledge - as you can in searching the Web

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets PS

2008-10-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I guess the obvious follow up question is when your systems search among options for a response to a situation, they don't search in a systematic way through spaces of options? They can just start anywhere and end up

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets

2008-10-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
The OpenCog Atomspace --- its knowledge-base of nodes and links --- is totally free-form without any overarching structures imposed by the programmer However, hierarchies or frames can of course exist as structures within this free-form pool of nodes and links In building a particular app using

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets

2008-10-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Ben, Thanks. But you didn't reply to the surely central-to-AGI question of whether this free-form knowledge base is or can be multi-domain - and particularly involve radically conflicting sets of rules about how given objects can behave - a central feature of the human brain and its knowledge

Re: [agi] Webs vs Nets

2008-10-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ben, Thanks. But you didn't reply to the surely central-to-AGI question of whether this free-form knowledge base is or can be multi-domain - and particularly involve radically conflicting sets of rules about how given